It Is Not ‘British’ Petroleum Mr Prez!
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If he calls it ‘British Petroleum’ instead of BP one more time I sincerely hope someone kicks his arse…or ass if you prefer.
There IS anti British rhetoric coming out of his mouth and he’d better have a think before he starts to burn bridges.
We have a new Prime Minister heading a co-alition government.
For once, if the British people make enough noise we’ll have a PM who will listen and act on our say so – he needs us or he’s toast.
Much more garbage from Mr Prez with this ‘British Petroleum’ stuff and we’ll be kicking our PM to tell him where he can stick the ‘special relationship’ too.
As many Brits are currently saying about the USA government – “You want oil? Then you get off your asses and help clean up the mess. It isn’t a British mess and it isn’t even a British company anymore – not for donkeys years. It’s a multi-national company so, Mr Prez. if you have any more anti British crap you’re considering coming out with, do yourself a favour and shut it!”
A lot of British pensions are tied up in BP stock. If The Prez thinks indirectly harming British pensioners by constantly slagging BP is a good idea then he can shove his ideas where the sun doesn’t shine.
BP paying for the clean up is one thing – up to a point – but if BP paying through the nose adversley affects British pensions then as far as we’re concerned they ain’t paying anymore.
Transocean, who operated the rig for BP are American. Anyone heard The Prez mention them yet?
Thought not….
Incidentally, wasn’t it the US government that allowed BP to get the well operating without a shut off system?….oops….
Oh yeah…it was American engineers that built what turned out to be a faulty rig – a faulty rig cleared by American Health and Safety.
There’s a few inconvenient truths popping out here isn’t there Mr Prez?
He has yet to mention the facility was constructed in accordance with American Construction Standard AWS D-1-1 and inspected in accordance with American Society for Mechanical Engineering Section IX. Quality Control to Section five of the same standard.
Maybe it isn’t JUST BP’s fault after all…maybe some American companies, not to mention the American government need to sniff the coffee….You slag Britain Mr Prez and we dig a bit deeper to see what you may be hiding, or even worse, too dumb to have realised.
Come on then Mr Prez. What are you going to do if Britain gets fed up with your sniping and BP realise they can actually tell you to go to hell unless you start acknowledging that one of the worst enviromental disasters for ages actually happened because some Americans cocked it up?
You quite sure you’re really helping here Mr Prez? You sure you aren’t just putting the blame on a ‘foreign’ company – in your eyes – and what you perceive, quite wrongly, to be a British company?
Let’s get the mess cleaned up, then sort out the politics Mr Prez but enough of your anti British gibberish if you please.
And remember Mr. Prez, BP never owned the rig….only the oil. Apart from the oil everything else was owned and operated by….oh dear…American interests….oops
It seems many Americans are completely oblivious to The Prez’s anti-British rhetoric. Odd. Still millions of Chinese still have no idea Tianeman Square ever happened….so there you go.
Life’s a bitch.
By the way, the Uruguay / France game was crap as well….
What do you reckon? England 3 – USA 0?
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I’m American and I agree with you. It is not all BP’s fault. The president could have had help but refused the Dutch and keeps repeating that it is BP’s responsiblity to clean it up. The federal government has told the state not to do anything on the beaches because it is BP’s responsiblity. That is just dumb and states are seeing that maybe Mr. Obama wants this to happen. BP is being blamed because they own the largest share and have the most money to drain. It’s crazy and I hope the rest of America will see it’s not BP’s fault. The boycotting of BP gas stations is wrong as well and I will be supporting BP anyway I can.
MJbrksan, That’s got to be about the stupidest thing I have heard all day. Thanks for the big laugh!
I love the Germans.
It was the Germans really….
How is it Mexico’s fault?
Good job Randall. bad enough 4D has everyone pissed off. Now you go and piss off Oso.
The only thing Mexico is guilty of is not kidnapping the Oakland Raiders and moving them to Mexico City where drug lords can use their ill gotten gains to make a winner out of them.
All of you are so full of shit. Everyone knows it’s Mexico’s fault.
Brits are a dry lot when it comes to their humor. Unless it involves women’s undergarments or singing about Spam, it can be hard to tell when one is joking. As much as I like the pithy humor of the Brits, there can be no tolerating this latest tantrum.
America is partially complicit in that our former government (owned and paid for by the oil companies) filled the MMS with minions willing to rubber stamp anything crossing their desk without a second look.
But this is almost as bad as saying a girl who gets raped on a date is complicit because she agreed to go out with the guy. Nobody signed up for this. The disaster may ruin the coast, but worse, it may ruin the ocean’s ecosystem.
All of us on the planet, not just the British pensioners or Louisiana fisherman will be well and truly fucked by this for years to come. BP makes close to 3 billion a MONTH so they have no right to try to evade paying for the mess.
I think Dinners gets defensive and patriotic when he hears Obama telling it like it is. An element of paranoia may creep in as he realizes his dividends could be in jeopardy if BP gets placed in receivership (which I hope happens immediately)!
I have read a couple of the papers Dinners must be getting his inspiration from; they are conservative rags. He is merely parroting the imbecilic rantings of the reporter du jour- much like a teabagger pops off after listening to Glenn Beck or Flush Limpballs.
When I am around children who throw tantrums, or who are unreasonable or obnoxious, I react like many on this board have already reacted to 4D’s juvenile display. Reasoning with the child when it is in such a state is not possible- especially if it has been “sucking the jug” a bit.
You can leave the room, plug your ears, turn up the radio, try to just ignore it, or give it a time out, but a child is still a child and will behave immaturely, time and again. Next time he pops off like this, I recommend no one respond at all.
Methinks he likes stirring the pot a bit too much, and is pushing the boundaries-as well as people’s buttons- on purpose. A parent or sibling may love their child or brother, but can sometimes simply not stand to be in the same room. A bit of toughlove is in order.
Well, will the real 4D please stand up?
Your cycle of constantly testing the waters with an inflammatory post followed by the usual Mea culpa tone of the posts that follow is getting old, old sport.
To magnify the situation, I feel your opinions and rants are changing positions almost as fast as the Daily Rags you must be reading.
Inciting rage and anger for sport and without a purpose quickly becomes old and tiresome, 4D.
You should leave the playing game on the soccer field. Your not really that good at it here.
Jerry, I share your outrage.
Here are some recent comments of fourdinners in response to this post of a few days ago:
fourdinners (June 10, 2010 at 8:38 pm): “Look old bean. If you read my comment you’ll see I was slagging off both BP and the British govmt.”
fourdinners (June 10, 2010 at 8:39 pm): four_drinks??? hahahahaha…you know me so well!!!…;-)”
fourdinners (June 10, 2010 at 8:46 pm) – Personally, I’d string up the BP bastards for what they’ve done.”
I will not waste my time correcting the factual errors of this post or pointing out the obvious contradictions or explaining his appalling behavior, but I will say this in succinct terms: I am OFFENDED by this post and will no longer participate in any forum in which fourdinners is a member. Have a nice day!
“Maybe it isn’t JUST BP’s fault after all” Then just who in the hell’s fault is it? God?
And “…BP never owned the rig.…only the oil”. Then tell them to get their fucking oil off our beaches and out of our marshes — ASSHOLE!!!
It hasn’t been British Petroleum for 10 years, legally, but let’s face it, you can call it BP, but we all know it’s British Petroleum, an international company registered in London, owned by investors around the world mainly the UK and the US. That Dinners guy is a trouble maker when it comes to Anglo/US relations, but I must agree with him when he rants about how much he hates Muslims and other foreigners. Go Dinners.
Analogous to AT&T, we all know it’s American Telephone and Telegraph. Or even KFC just going by initials.
I just don’t want to hear Obama calling them Indian Petroleum or Mexican Petroleum.
4D: With all due respect — and I do respect you a lot — “British Petroleum” is the name of the company, and that remains true regardless of how much or how little of the ownership of it remains in British citizens’ hands. We’ve spoken of this before. Americans are well aware of how giant American corporations such as Halliburton have committed horrendous abuses in other countries, over which we ordinary Americans had no say. So we know that the people of another country such as Britain are not to blame for the crimes of a multinational corporation that happens to be based there.
“American Express” credit cards are widely owned and used all over the world. Imagine if it were discovered that the American Express company were guilty of some horrendous malfeasance on British territory and against British people. We would understand that British politicians would condemn American Express and demand retribution. We wouldn’t think they were being anti-American by talking about it. “American Express” is just the name of the company.
Those tabloids are just stirring up drama and conflict where they don’t exist, to boost sales. That’s what tabloids do. Don’t fall for their games.
Ahhh Dinners,You are wrong on so many levels about this that there’s no point going on with you about it. You know I like you Mate. On this you have your head up your ass. This seems to be a recurring theme of yours. BP is the villain here. Haliburton followed orders from BP. Now do I blame you, no I do not. If the Brits lose every damn dime they have in BP stocks , tough shit.
It’s the stock market and no one guarantees you make money. Stocks are a gamble. Just as we lost almost everything in 2008.
There are volumes that have been and could be written. I’m advocating putting BP into receivership so that not a single dime is without our control. So we have different points of view.
Guess who’s view is more likely to gain momentum. Sorry mate you should have invested in Spam. By the way BP in my neighborhood stands for bulbous pricks. Hey what’s in a name….
Ha! You Brits have hated us since we The Revolution and then when we kicked your asses in New Orleans during the War of 1812. And that ass kicking was just for good measure even though the war was officially over.
So now you claim British Petroleum isn’t really British. You probably said the British East India Company wasn’t British either when Ghandi niced your asses out of India.
Let that be a lesson to you 4D.
I agree with London Limey. This dinners guy is the British equivalent of an American Tea-Bagger. I don’t understand why everyone around here loves the noisy little prick . He is a conservative english racist who hates our president. He makes up shit and blames it on the British electorate. Why do you people act like you want to hug him? He is opposed to everything you stand for. I will never understand folk.
I don’t believe in writing people off because they don’t agree with everything I think or say or write. I don’t write people off until they give me a good reason to do so. 4D has never given me a good reason. I actually find 4D’s caustic nature refreshing at times – it can be like a brit version of All in the Family around here.
I’m a Brit too, living and working in New York for the past 2 years, I watch the news networks, read the New York Times, I pay attention to what’s going on. I do not understand where you get all this ‘anti-British’ stuff from, perhaps you need to stop reading tabloids that are spouting this crap, because it is just not true.
Where is the substance to back up what you are saying. If you are to be believed, all Obama is doing is slagging BP and Britain in general. There is no anti-British rhetoric, none. But I sense anti-American rhetoric from you which I find a little disturbing. I get the feeling you are sitting around with your mates laughing at the people over here and making light of their problems.
Americans, for the most part, like British people, although it could be you are on a mission to change that.
off to bed…early start on the morrow…a few pupils to teach to drive then home for the match. Nite America x